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What a grand sense of humor Eddie Cantor has ! He tells this one on himself. He sang for the boys in a veterans' hospital one day, and as he was leaving. he said to one boy: "I hope you get better, son." And (according to Cantor) the boy replied: "I hope you do, too, Mr. Cantor."

Jones was beefing about the high cost of his vacation. He said "that hotel where I stayed charged me twenty dollars a day, and the meals were terrible. The food was not fit to eat. And to make it worse, the portions were so small." * :;3 *

During the First World War a man named Newton D. Baker was Secretary of War. He was noted for his amazing lack of personal egotism. One of his friends furiously complained to Baker one day that he was not being given a square deal in current history, and the calm gentleman replied: "I am not as concerned as I should be, I fear, about the verdict of history. For the same reason it seems to me unworthy to worry about myself when so many thousands participated in the War unselfishly and heroically, who will find no place at all in the records we make up and call history." Something tells me that the Unknown Soldier enjoyed that grand remark better than any wreath of flowers. ,r. * *

When someone offers a prize for the most graceful and scholarly scolding of recent times, the letter recently written by Dr. Lee De Forest to the National Association of Broadcasters should be a hot entry. Dr. De Forest, you know, is the man who, in 1907, invented the audion tube, and is therefore the father of modern radio. Dr. De Forest evidently is not pleased with the things his famous tube is being made to do, for he asks in his letter-"What have you gentlemen done to my child?" And then he goes on tosayi * I *

"fle was conceived as a potent instrumentality for culture. fine music, the uplifting of America's mass intelligence. You have debased this child. You have sent him out on the street to collect from all and sundry. You have made him a laughing stock of intelligence. Soap opera without end or sense floods each household daily, murder mysteries rule the waves at night, and children are rendered psycopathic by your bedtime stories. This child of mine has been resolutely kept to the average intelligence of 13 years, as though you and your sponsors believe the majority of listeners have only moron minds. The curse of your commercials has grown constantly more cursed, year by year." Them's harsh words. Doc !

Jim Stevens says that if you will consider the price of lumber at what it costs per pound, you will find it one of the cheapest of all useful commodities. Now, there's an angle that you, dear reader, probably had not considered. The same goes for me. Jim Stevens is a distinguished writer on lumber and forestry topics who lives in the Pacific Northwest. The Eugene Register Guard, a newspaper published in Eugene, Oregon, recently published an article under the signature of Mr. Stevens, which has been reprinted by the Trio Lumber Company, of Eugene. It is in this piece that the author*discusses lumber by the pound.

He says that he recently bought a little jag of lumber to do some repair work with, and when he paid the bill he got to figuring on the cost of this lumber. He had heard complaints about the high cost of the commodity. So it occurred to him to figure it by the pound, like most other valuable commodities are figured. He found that the lumber cost him 4 cents a pound, delivered in his yard. And right away he asked the question of himself and anyone interested-"what else have you bought for 4 cents a pound lately?" His jag of lumber cost him a total of $20, at 4 cents a pound. He got to thinking about apples, another prominent product of that region. He figured that at the rate the local groccr charged him, 500 pounds of apples would have cost him $72.50, instead of the $20 he paid for the same weight tr tr*b.;.. * *

"Now I'm not crying about the cost of apples," says Mr. Stevens. "Yet they only have to be picked, packed, and shipped over a short period of time by large crews, with a small force doing the prunlng, spraying, and irrigating in the months between crops. And there is a crop a year. The logger has to pay fire-protection costs on his trees until it comes time to pick the lumber. Then he has to lay out money for expensive roads and equipment. The lumber crop is harvested. Then the slash is to burn. Then more protection-and the next crop in 70 years. There are log hauls. Then the sa'*'miJl and planing mill and other processing and handling, before shipping. Then transportation charges. At the retail yard, unloading, storage, loading for retail delivery, and handling at delivery point. Quite a lot of doings and stuff for 4 cents a pou.nd, seems to rne. And this for a product built to*last a*minimum of 25 years."

He goes on to estimate that his home, which he bought in 1940, cost less than 2 cents a pound with garage, doghouse, and picket fence thrown in. Today you could replace this house for less than 5 cents a pound. "No question," concludes Mr. Stevens, "seven years ago houses were far (Continued on Page 14)

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Vagabond Editorials

(Continued from Page 12) and away too cheap." One must admit, musn't one, that Mr. Stevens has a very t":...f,t?t angle on lumber prices?

One of these Vagabond Editorials back in the year 1943 discussed the various nations that had already fallen under the Nazi yoke, and I predicted that we wouldl have to "free them, feed them, and fight them." That prophecy wasn't a bad one. We had to free them. We are having to feed them. And the jury is still out about the fighting. With some of them it might happen.

**t< denly ended, and depression faded away like fog before the rising sun. But, like I was saying, during the first few years I guessed wTong every sixty days about the probable end of the trouble. And so, dear friends, did everyone else who had the temerity to suggest with Sir Walter Scott's sage that "coming events cast their shadows before." So I say again to all business sages; let depressions alone. You can't guess them.

However, I must admit that I am nothing to brag about when it comes to predicting the future. Nothing, fancy, anyway. f have read these Vagabond Editorials over from the time they started some twenty years back, and no man ever missed more guesses than I. Take the depression. I kept guessing that it was about over from the time it started in 1929 until the war finally put an end to it twelve years later. How did I know it would go on indefinitely? No previous depression ever had, and I spent a lot of time studlring the history of depressions from the beginning of civilization. So I kept right on calling my shots about how soon the bedevilment was just naturally bound to end. But, as though totally unconcerned about my predictions, the depression kept right on its merry way. Only it wasn't merry. That's the trouble with depressions. They are unreliable. A sound tip to all editors and columnists is-lay off depression predictions. No one is that smart.

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Two magic words have worked their way confidently into the consciousness of theAmerican lumber industry,and now occupy the very center of the stage: SUSTAINED YIELD. We find those words playing a prominent part in lumber r;onventions, in lumber discussionsg in lumber planning, in lumber advertising, in the entire lumber program. Turn back just a few short yearg and you find scarcely a handful of people in the lumber industry who seemed to have any thought or word concerning SUSTAINED YIELD. But when it came, it came fast. To put more and more sawmills on a sustained yield basis through practical scientific planning and manipulation is now the avowed chief aim of the lumber manufacturing industry. Themistocles, wise Athenian of long ago, boasted publicly that he could "tell you how to make a city grow." The American lumber industry today is just as prideful of the fact that it has learned at long last how to help timber grow, how to protect that growth, and how to harvest the crop on a sustained yield basis to the end that more and more mills may go on cutting continuously. "Ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free" says the Good Book. The lumber industry is learning the truth of timber growth, and the truth is gradually setting it free.

San Francisco Firm Finds Good Mcrrket For Alaskcr Yellow Cedar

"We are doing a good volume of business in Alaska Yellow Cedar," says R. T. Evju of Evju Products Company, 486 California Street, San Francisco 4.

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All sound economists know now that we kept the depression alive by feeding it billions, seeking a cure for that monumental business and financial illness. Always in the past history of depressions the thing ran its course like a fever, and then ended. Never before did a government try to cure a great depression with money. We tried it this time at unheard of cost, and we simply kept the depression running along waiting for something to happen. Something did. The war came along, a war so great and so demanding that the complete industrial might of this nation was called upon at generously profitable prices to furnish needed supplies of every sort.

"This lvood is almost identical rvith Port Orford Cedar, and is superior in many respects. It is used for boat framing, for heavy duty bridge and dock decking, and in general construction u'here a rvood .ilith qualities of higher resistance to rot and abrasion are reeuired," Mr. Eviu stated.